Rudder-hanging and steering device



(No Model.)

EHBARNEY.

- RUDDER HANGING AND STEERING DEVICE.

INVENTOR ATTORNE UMTEE ST T S FATENT FFICE RUDDER-HANGING AND STEERING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 319,665, dated June 9, 1885.

Application filed January 12, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EVERETT H. BARNEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rudder-Hangings and Steering Devices for Boats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in rudder-hangings and in devices for operating the rudder for steering boats, the object being to provide improved devices for attaching rudders to boats, whereby the rudder is prevented from becoming nnshipped accidentally, and its attachment to the boat is made more secure than by devices heretofore employed,

' and whereby the edge of the rudder-stock ad joining the stern-post and the hanging devices are prevented from presenting any resistance to the water as the boat moves through it, and to provide improved tiller-connections for boats. 1

In the drawings forming part ofthis specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the stern portion of a boat embodying my improvements. Figs. 2, 3, and tare detail views.

In the drawings, A represents the stern portion of a boat of the canoe class, decked over back ofthe center and having the usual mast, b. l

A metallic plate, B, is secured to the deck around the mast, and to the latter plate is secured by dowels, as shown, a tubular tilleryoke bearing, 0, having a foot, 00, the mast 12 passing through said tubular bearing, the latter having a slot, a, in its rear side. On said bearing 0 is fitted the sleeve 0 of the tilleryoke, which consists ofsaid sleeve having the arms 6 projecting from opposite sides thereof, and having on its side, between said arms,the split screw-threaded shank y, the sleeveitself being divided between the two parts of said shank and making thereof a broken ring capable of being contracted around the part 0, to resist any force tending to turn it thereon, or of being left free to be turned, as hereinafter set forth.

A screw, a, is placed in the sleeve, (see Fig. 3,) whose point enters the slot a in the tube 0, and serves to prevent the sleeve 0 from becoming displaced, and to limit the swinging movement of the tiller-yoke, as the latter can only swing in either direction until the end of the screw strikes the end of the slot a.

A handle, (1, is provided with an interiorly screw-th readed ferrule, z, whereby the handle is screwed onto the split shank y. The open end of said ferrule is beveled to conform to the inclined surface of the shank y at the base of its screw-thread, so that when said ferrule is forcibly screwed onto the shank against said inclined surface the parts of the shank are drawn together, contracting the sleeve 0' and clamping it around the tube a. Unscrewing the ferrule frees the tiller-yoke.

A plate, 2), secured on the end of one of the parts of shank y, prevents the handle from being accidentally screwed off;

The stern-post m ofthe boat has fitted into it a section of a metallic tube, h, from which about one-third of its circumference is re moved, as clearly shown in Fig. 2, which tube is firmly there secured in any suitable manner and extends from one end to the other of the stern-post.

The rudder K is secured to the rudder-stock n, the latter consisting, substantially, of a round metallic bar made to fit within said tube h in such a manner as to permit it to have a reciprocating rotary movement therein, the dottedlinesin Fig. 2 indicating thelimit ofrudder movement as the latter is swung against either edge of the tube h.

A collar, 0, is placed on the rudder-stock n, to bear on the upper end of the tube hand support the rudder in proper position.

The rudder K is made, preferably, of sheet metal in canoe and other small craft constructions, but in larger vessels may be otherwise made, and secured in any suitable manner to the stock a.

The tiller J is secured to therudder or to I close connection of the rudder-stock withthe stern-post m prevents any actionof the water against the stock, whereby the speed of the boat may be more or less retarded. The rudder is attached and detached by the vertical movement of the rudder-stock in the tube.

By the use of thetiller-yoke the person managing theboat,while sitting forward of the deck, can with great ease and convenience, grasp the handled, and, turning the tiller-yoke,'ma-' nipulate the rudder and set it to any required position.

If desired, the screw a and slot a may be' cured to said post, the slot opening to the rear; l

of the boat, a cylindrical pintle forming the, rudder-stock, fitted in said tube and free to, rise and fall therein, the rudder-blade in work-,

ing position extending through the slot in the tube, as set forth.

2. The within-described tiller-connections, consisting of the tubular yoke-bearing having a transverse slot therein, the yoke consisting ofa split sleeve fitting said tubular bearing, and having tiller-chain arms projecting from opposite sides thereof, and provided with the split handle-shank y and the screw a, and the handled, provided with the ferrule 2, combined with the tiller and with suitable til1erchains, substantially as set forth.

3. In combination, the split sleeve 0', having the split shank y and the arms 6 e thereon, the handle (2, having the ferrule z, a suitable postsupport for said sleeve, the tiller, and suitable connections between the latter and said arms,

substantially asset forth.

4. In combination, the tubular bearing 0, the split sleeve-c, having the split shank y and the arms 0 c thereon, the handle [1, having the ferrule z, the tiller, and suitable connections between the latter and said arms, substantially as set forth.

EVERETT H. BARNEY.

W'itnesses:

J. D. GARFIELD, W. F. Bron. 

